@@ -340,33 +340,31 @@ The purpose of the adequacy statement is to show that our notion of weakest prec
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@@ -340,33 +340,31 @@ The purpose of the adequacy statement is to show that our notion of weakest prec
There are two properties we are looking for: First of all, the postcondition should reflect actual properties of the values the program can terminate with.
There are two properties we are looking for: First of all, the postcondition should reflect actual properties of the values the program can terminate with.
Second, a proof of a weakest precondition with any postcondition should imply that the program is \emph{safe}, \ie that it does not get stuck.
Second, a proof of a weakest precondition with any postcondition should imply that the program is \emph{safe}, \ie that it does not get stuck.
To express the adequacy statement for functional correctness, we assume we are given some set $V \subseteq\Val$ of legal return values.
\begin{defn}[Adequacy]
Furthermore, we assume that the signature $\Sig$ adds a predicate $\pred$ to the logic which reflects $V$ into the logic:
A program $\expr$ in some initial state $\state$ is \emph{adequate} for a set $V \subseteq\Val$ of legal return values ($\expr, \state\vDash V$) if for all $\tpool', \state'$ such that $([\expr], \state)\tpstep^\ast(\tpool', \state')$ we have
\begin{enumerate}
\item Safety: For any $\expr' \in\tpool'$ we have that either $\expr'$ is a
Notice that this is stronger than saying that the thread pool can reduce; we actually assert that \emph{every} non-finished thread can take a step.
\item Legal return value: If $\tpool'_1$ (the main thread) is a value $\val'$, then $\val' \in V$:
\[\All\val',\tpool''. \tpool' =[\val']\dplus\tpool' \Ra\val' \in V \]
\end{enumerate}
\end{defn}
To express the adequacy statement for functional correctness, we assume that the signature $\Sig$ adds a predicate $\pred$ to the logic which reflects the set $V$ of legal return values into the logic:
\\&( \TRUE\proves{\upd}_\mask\Exists S. S(\state) * \wpre{\expr}[\mask]{x.\;\pred(x)}) \Ra
\\&\cfg{\state}{[\expr]}\step^\ast
\\&\expr, \state\vDash V
\cfg{\state'}{[\val] \dplus\tpool'}\Ra
\\&\val\in V
\end{align*}
The adequacy statement for safety says that our weakest preconditions imply that every expression in the thread pool either is a value, or can reduce further.
Notice that this is stronger than saying that the thread pool can reduce; we actually assert that \emph{every} non-finished thread can take a step.
Notice that the state invariant $S$ used by the weakest precondition is chosen \emph{after} doing a fancy update, which allows it to depend on the names of ghost variables that are picked in that initial fancy update.
\paragraph{Hoare triples.}
\paragraph{Hoare triples.}
It turns out that weakest precondition is actually quite convenient to work with, in particular when perfoming these proofs in Coq.
It turns out that weakest precondition is actually quite convenient to work with, in particular when perfoming these proofs in Coq.